COVID-19

Delays in assistance are already leaving some low-income renters in a bind.

Two local Montana governments missed out on a previous round of federal pandemic aid due to a technicality. Sen. Jon Tester recently introduced a bill to bring the money into southwest Montana.

Law professors and attorneys said this appears to be the first time that pandemic-related laws have been challenged in court over an alleged infringement on tribal sovereignty.

Montana's fourth and eighth graders saw significant declines in math and reading comprehension during the pandemic.

August jobs data from the Montana Department of Labor and Industry shows the state is ninth in the nation in percentage of jobs recovered since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new mural in an alleyway in downtown Billings memorializes the hundreds of community members lost to COVID-19.

How Republicans in Montana hijacked public health and brought a hospital to the brink

More than two years into the pandemic, hospital budgets are beginning to crack. One of the biggest drivers of financial shortfalls has been the cost to find workers.

The pandemic laid bare the gaps and disparities in the U.S. public health system, and often resulted in blowback against local officials trying to slow the coronavirus’s spread. But one positive outcome, in part fueled by a boost in federal dollars, is that health workers have started adapting lessons they learned from their COVID-19 response to other aspects of their work.

The state Supreme Court ruled against a group of parents that argued that school mask mandates infringed on their constitutional rights.